secondaire
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,738
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
secondaire is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est accessoire, qui ne vient qu’en second. Pronounced \sə.ɡɔ̃.dɛʁ\. It ranks #2,738 in French word frequency. Often confused with secondaires.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | secondaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \sə.ɡɔ̃.dɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #2,738 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for secondaire is 10 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sə.ɡɔ̃.dɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,738 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for secondaire, with forms such as "escondaire", "sceondaire", and "seccondaire". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "secondaires", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is secondaire, spelled S-E-C-O-N-D-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est accessoire, qui ne vient qu’en second.
- 2Qui est du second degré.
- 3Qualifie l’enseignement des collèges et des lycées, par opposition d’une part à l’enseignement primaire et d’autre part à l’enseignement supérieur. Au Canada, le secondaire suit le primaire mais exclut le collégial. → voir cégep
- 4Qualifie le secteur économique qui regroupe les activités liées à la transformation des matières premières issues du secteur primaire (industrie manufacturière, construction).
- 5Qualifie une forêt qui se réinstalle après la destruction d’une forêt primitive.
- 6Qualifie l’ère géologique, également appelée mésozoïque, qui s’étend de -251 à -65,5 millions d’années, entre l’ère primaire (le Paléozoïque) et l’ère tertiaire (le Cénozoïque), et comprenant comme périodes successives le Trias, le Jurassique et le Crétacé.
- 7Qualifie les terrains plus anciens après les terrains primaires.
- 8Qualifie les accidents qui se produisent à la seconde période de la maladie.
- 9Qualifie les effets qui ne relèvent pas de l’effet principal attendu du médicament ou du traitement.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: escondaire,sceondaire,seccondaire,secnodaire,secodnaire,seconadire,secondaier,secondairre,secondarie,seconddaire,secondiare,seconndaire,seocndaire,ssecondaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for secondaire
Misspelling Variants of "secondaire"
Frequency rank: #2,738 in French
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